Adenauerallee, Park and street in Oberursel, Germany
Adenauerallee runs from Bärenkreuzung to Nassauer Straße in Oberursel. At its entrance stands the twelve-storey City Center, a residential and commercial building auctioned in 2007 for 3.5 million euros, with shops on the lower three floors and 55 flats above. Behind it the avenue widens into a park; the road itself leads toward the station, with restaurants and businesses on the even-numbered west side and the green area along the odd-numbered east side. It ends at a 1991 fountain and a modern bee house.
The road was already documented as an "Allee" in 1724, when its official name was Frankfurter Straße, known locally as the Frankfurter Chaussee. It was renamed Adolf-Hitler-Allee in 1933, became simply "Allee" in 1945, and took the name Adenauerallee in 1967 after Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of West Germany.
The Bärenkreuzung at the north end takes its name from the former Gasthof zum Bären; the Bärenbrunnen fountain now recalls that inn. The Skagerrak memorial, inaugurated here on 2 July 1939, was dismantled from 28 August 1945. The Oberurseler Autoschau and a flea market are held in the park, and during the 2011 Hessentag the avenue formed the core of the Hessentagsstraße.
The avenue runs from Bärenkreuzung to Nassauer Straße, with the road for motor traffic heading toward the station and the park laid out beside it. The continuation toward Frankfurt is called Frankfurter Landstraße, while the continuation into the centre is the Vorstadt pedestrian zone. The town's listed railway station stands just beyond Nassauer Straße.
The Skagerrak memorial, built in 1939 to designs by sculptor Paul Dick, once stood on the avenue: its central block alone weighed 270 Zentner, and bronze crests of the sunken German ships decorated its base. It was dismantled in 1945 and the base later demolished.
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